Brazil President Says Nation Will Be Ready For World Cup

SÃO PAULO—Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff responded to growing doubts over her country's preparations for this year's World Cup by reassuring critics that this soccer-mad nation will be ready and promising the Cup will be a success.

"Brazilians begin 2014 confident that they will host the Cup of Cups," Ms. Rousseff wrote on her official Twitter account on Monday. "In Brazil, the Cup will be at home, because this is...